Month: June 2017

Bendigo Taichi Chinese Kung Fu Fan Workshop

Bendigo Taichi Chinese Kung Fu Fan Workshop

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Bendigo students from WELBY Holistic Healing had a great time participating at the Chinese fan workshop on 17th June 2017, we had a good mix of students from all different disciplines (kung fu, tai chi, qigong, mulan and junior kung fu) coming together and it was amazing to see everyone helping each other out and training intensively, especially the junior students, who held themselves together so well and stayed focused.

We cannot wait to organise the next workshop, so if you have any ideas of what you would like to learn, please feel free to contact us.

Raymond completed Reusi Dat Ton (Thai Yoga) training in Thailand

Raymond completed Reusi Dat Ton (Thai Yoga) training in Thailand

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Reusi Dat Ton (Ascetic Self Stretch/ Hermit Yoga) is an important part of the traditional Thai medicine and culture. The movements are based on the Reusi statues at the temple and their poems about their health benefits.

It usually starts with breathing exercises, self acupressure massage and then moves onto dynamic stretches and poses, which is very similar to how we would normally run our taichi and qigong classes at WELBY Holistic Healing.

Raymond was very lucky to train in a very small group with only three other people and found the intensive close supervision extremely beneficial (and grueling especially in 35 degrees heat and 90 – 100% humidity with no air conditioning!).

“It is almost the missing link between Yoga from India and Qigong from China, I think this is the perfect form of exercise for people who find Yoga a little bit too “static” and Qigong transition too “dynamic”. As soon as we started training you can straight away recognise the movements from both Yoga and Qigong and even Pilates. I have already started prescribing individual exercise from the Reusi Dat Ton series for physiotherapy patients with neck and upper back pain and have immediate success. I truly cannot wait to start sharing what I have learned soon! It has been an eye opening experience and a reminder that I should always keep an open mind when comes to learning things I am skeptical and not familiar with.” exclaimed Raymond.